TITLE: DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE
COMPOSER: ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
LABEL: LONDON
THE BOTTOM LINE: This muddled work ended Korngold's operatic career, but Vienna's loss was the movies' gain.
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved...
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